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Miguel de Cervantes | Educational Bios for Kids

Discover hundreds of never-before-seen resources! Create your free account at https://my.happylearning.tv/ and start learning in the most entertaining way. What are you waiting for? Miguel de Cervantes Hello friends, I´m Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, I imagine you must know that I am one of the most famous writers in our history, but allow me to tell you about my complicated life. I was born in the middle of the XVI century in Alcala de Henares, a small village belonging to Madrid. My father was a humble surgeon while I, as a little boy began to write poems. When I was still young I injured a man with my sword and I had to flee to Italy so as to escape justice. I signed up to the Spanish Armada and fought against the Turks in the Lepanto battle where a gunshot destroyed my left hand, rendering it useless. As from then I was nick named "the one handed from Lepanto"… But my misfortunes didn’t end there, when I was returning to Spain by boat, pirates attacked us and I was captured as a prisoner. They then took me to an African city, Argel, where I was imprisoned for five long years. When they finally freed me, as a result of a rescue operation, I eventually managed to get back to Spain. Latter I was married and began to write plays, but my cursed bad luck continued and I was not able to make a living as a writer. I was imprisoned once again because of a money issue and it was during these months in jail where I began to write the play which has given me eternal fame, "The ingenious gentleman Don Quijote of the Mancha." In it I narrated Don Quijote´s adventures accompanied by his loyal squire Sancho Panza. Truth is, it did give me great glory and fame, but little else, as I lived the remainder of my days immersed in poverty. Before saying farewell, I would like to give you a little advice, in spite of having constant bad luck, you should always fight for what you believe in and make a great effort with your responsibilities. I, even though I generally had bad luck, managed to achieve glory doing what I loved most…writing and creating. Goodbye friends, adios.